Thanks! That was my original idea actually but wasnt aware I could erase (truncate was apparently the word I should have search on) the contents of the file with file handle open. Changed my obnoxious swapping code to

        copy($currFile, $logDir. $self->{old_logs_name}. '.1') or die 
+"Could not copy the log file because $!";
        my $fh = $self->{fh};
        truncate($fh, 0) or die "Could not truncate the log file becau
+se $!";
        seek($fh, 0, 0) or die "Could not set the position in the log 
+file because $!";
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Thanks again!